Face Fear and Overcome It- Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Face Fear and Overcome It

If we want to overcome our fears, we must first learn to face the fears and accept the situation as it is without distortion.Facing it is the only way to conquer inevitable things. When we face with deep awareness, suddenly we will see, the fear disappears! The fear will lose its power to frighten us.Instead, when you are faced with fear, if you try to resist it or suppress it, the fear will get empowered. Just look at the fear, note the fear and accept it. The more we fight, the more we empower fear. Diverting our attention away from the fear is also not the way because then the fear still remains with us. It does not leave us.A small story:On a dark night, a man was walking on a narrow path. Suddenly, his foot hit a rock and he stumbled and fell down. He managed to catch hold of a branch hanging over the rock. It was completely dark. The man tightly held onto the branch. He shouted for help but the only response was his voice echoing back. Hearing the echo, the man was terrified that he might be at the mouth of a huge abyss.The night seemed endless and the man was desperately holding on, hoping he could get some help. Finally, dawn arrived.

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The man looked down to see how deep the abyss was, but there was no abyss, just two feet down was a big rock!Our fears are exactly like his. We think it is an abyss but it is actually just a few feet below. If we can it, we can see that it has no depth. Because we magnify it, it becomes an imaginary abyss.If we live the fear intensely without any reservations, it will not touch us! It is a choice we need to make - either to keep clinging onto the branch and torturing ourselves, or to let go of it and see ourselves through.

How to overcome our fears? Simply visualize the situation that causes you fear. Fear will start surfacing. Don’t suppress it. Just allow it to happen. You will experience the fear completely, and you will go beyond it also. When we experience something completely, it will leave us without a hangover.Ramana Maharishi says, “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear. It is not absence of fear.” A person who we call courageous is not the one without fear, but the one who has learnt to face fear without fear.source;www.nithyananda.or- g